britain since the romans 6 : the age of extremes
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Britain since the Romans
6 : The Age of Extremes
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Oscar Wilde
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1906 : first free school meals
1908 : first old age pensions (5 shillings a week)
1909 : first Labour Exchanges
1911 : National health insurance act
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1914 Outbreak of the First World War
1916 Introduction of Conscription
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A British cemetery in France
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1924 : First Labour government
1926 : General strike
1929 : Second Labour government
1931: « National Government »
1936: Cable Street
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1926 General Strike : the government newspaper
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1926 General Strike : union newspaper
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Ramsay Macdonald : the first Prime Minister from the Labour Party
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Oswald Mosley, the British fascist leader
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Winston Churchill,Prime Minister from 1940 to 1945 and from 1951 to 1955
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The Blitz
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The effects of the Blitz in Manchester
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Dresden
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The Windrush, carrying Caribbean immigrants to England
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Aneuran Bevan, who founded the National Health Service in 1948
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High Rise flats built in the 1960s
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A Republican mural in Northern Ireland
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A unionist paramilitary mural in Northern Ireland
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1977 The Sex Pistols
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1970 : Founding of the Gay Liberation Front in Britain, based on its American counterpart
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1979-1997 Conservative government(Margaret Thatcher 1979-1990; John Major 1990-1997)
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1972 : the Pentonville five
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March 1984 to March 1985:
The Great Miners’ Strike
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1990 : the Poll Tax and the Poll Tax Revolt
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1993 : the racist murder of Stephen Lawrence led to major reforms.
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1997 : after eighteen years of Conservative government, Tony Blair becomes Prime Minister with his « New Labour » party
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1999: important reform of the House of Lords
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1997 : Referendums decide on more autonomy for Wales and Scotland
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2004 Demonstration against the war in Iraq
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2010 : A second inquiry into Bloody Sunday